Journal for the Study of the Old Testament

Papers
(The TQCC of Journal for the Study of the Old Testament is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)
ArticleCitations
Did Lot Get His Just Desserts? Trauma, Revenge, and Re-enactment in Genesis 19.30-385
Economics and Urdeuteronomium: A response to Kåre Berge, Diana Edelman, Philippe Guillaume, and Benedetta Rossi4
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy3
5. Studies on Specific Books3
Index of Series3
7. Law, Religion and Theology2
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch(Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)2
Worship as Social Creativity: Social Identity and the Form of Psalm 792
Keep in touch, stay in sight: locally-interpreted overt subjects in 1QIsaa2
Index of Authors2
The Masoretic Text of Haggai 2.7b in light of verbal valency patterns1
Index of Series1
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)1
Index of Publishers1
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy1
The Place and the Stone: Reassessing the Priestly Writing’s relationship to Bethel1
Index of Series1
7. Law, Religion and Theology1
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls1
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy1
One or many? The grammatical number of suffixed nouns as a text-critical problem1
Moses, the Lifter of the Sky: A Novel Reading of Exodus 17:8–16 in Light of the Heliopolitan Cosmogony1
The ancestors’ masculinities in Genesis1
Comical moments and comical characterisations in Tobit: The undermining of self-righteous piety, simplistic retribution, and limited Yahwism1
The ironic syllogism: A rhetorical use of unmarked questions1
6. Hermeneutics and History of Interpretation1
The Main Character of the Book of Esther: The Contribution of the Textual Divisions and the Assigned Titles of the Book of Esther to Uncovering Its Protagonist1
Children of the night: The portrayal of children in the book of Lamentations0
Psalm 120 and the question of authorship of the songs of Ascents0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
A Blameworthy Burial: A Methodology for Inner-Biblical Allusion with a Case Study from Chronicles0
An alliterative-typographical device in Psalm 37: Divine destruction of the wicked, enacted in real time0
Index of Authors0
9. Apocryphaand Postbiblical Studies0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
The Resilience of the Captive Girl Child in 2 Kings 50
The shift from lament to praise in the psalms: A psychodynamic phenomenon0
7. Law, Religionand Theology0
bĕ-rēʾšît, “With ‘Wisdom,’” in Genesis 1.1 (MT)0
A Time to Throw Away Stones: Qohelet’s Enigmatic Reference to Stones as a Hinge for the Themes of War and Peace in the Time Poem0
The Ram of Ordination and Qualifying the Priests to Eat Sacrifices0
“Die Empörten Weiber”: Gender, Authority and Protestant Modernism in Jeremiah 440
Narratological implications of the differences between the Masoretic Text and the Septuagint: 1 Samuel 10.5 and 13.1–4 as a case study0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20230
Internal Focalization in 1 Samuel – a new perspective on Jonathan’s love for David0
The poetics of YHWH: Establishing criteria for identifying intentional allusions to the divine name in YHWH-acronyms0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
The anticipatory structure of Isaiah 1-120
5. Studies on Specific Books I. Pentateuch (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy)0
Enjambment as a syntactic phenomenon and poetic technique in the Psalms of Ascent0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
4. Texts and Versions0
7. Law, Religion and Theology0
Editorial fatigue and the relationship between 2 Kings 18–20 and Isaiah 36–390
2. Archaeology and Epigraphy0
Index of Reviewers0
The Woman from Tekoa (2 Sam. 14) and the Character of Judicial Wisdom in Ancient Israel0
The Inheritance of (Wicked) Speech: A Reconsideration of Job 20.290
11. Philology and Grammar0
The Song of Moses as a model for Isa. 10.5–190
4. Texts and Versions0
Offerings Matter: Revisiting the Sabbath Transgression in Nehemiah 13 and the So-Called Sabbath Reform0
Vision signals and the language of vision descriptions in the prophets0
Marginal characters: A strategy of persuasion in 1–2 Samuel0
Is Eliphaz a false prophet? The vision in Job 4.12-210
Index of Reviewers0
Cumulative Part-Whole Relations as a Verbal and Visual Rhetorical Strategy: Song of Songs 7 and Composite Beings of the Southern Levant0
Jeremiah’s Laments as Effective Speech0
Wisdom and the fear of YHWH: Rethinking their relationship in Proverbs 1–90
Rejection Realized: Saul, the Evil Spirit and the Loss of Kingship0
Going Vertical with Love Thy Neighbor: Exegetical Use of Scripture in Leviticus 19.18b0
Dreaming big: On expanding dreams, hubris, and the character of the biblical Joseph0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
Law and Emotion in Moral Repair: Circumscribing Infringement0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
The Aesthetics of Biblical Acrostics0
“Naomi the Nurse: Obed’s Ambiguous Identity Transmission”0
Surfing with Jonah: Reading Jonah as a Postcolonial Trauma Narrative0
Cultic Images of Jerusalem in Lamentations 2:1–80
The Solomonic Temple of Josephus’ Antiquities0
5. Studies on Specific Books0
Jeremiah as the model city: ‘Iron pillar’ as temple language in Jeremiah 1.180
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Society for Old Testament Study Book List 20240
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Index of Publishers0
On the Threshold: Liminality in the Stories of the Concubine of Gibeah and Ruth0
Are God’s ‘Good Plans’ not Good Enough? The Place and Significance of Jer 29.15 in Jeremiah’s Letter to the Exiles0
The Society for Old Testament Study0
Index of Authors0
The Biblical Nesher as the Griffon Vulture, Gyps fulvus: Ornithological character traits0
On the tedious and monotonous repetitions in the Tabernacle accounts: a reassessment0
Eglon’s Fat and Ehud’s Oracle: A Reconsideration of Humour in Judges 3.12–300
Books Also Received0
Backlighting Jeroboam: Form, Content, and Paronomasia in 1 Kings0
The House That Built Me: The ‘House of God’ and Its Role in the Construction of Fear in Nehemiah 6.1–150
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Let There Be Cain: A Clash of Imaginations in Genesis 40
Transitive Analogies and the Meaning of Balaam’s Origin: A Literary Analysis0
The Most High God vs. Nabû: A God of Letters, Wisdom, and Fate Who Can(not) Read, Understand, or Foretell0
Genocide in Esther: A response to a recent attempt to defend Haman0
To what extent is the Moses story modelled on other biblical stories?0
Of monsters and men: Reading Daniel with the Liber de Morte (Metz Epitome)0
Index of Authors0
Books Also Received0
The centrality of individual petitions in temple rituals: Hannah, Solomon, and first-person psalms0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
The golden calf of Bethel and Judah’s mimetic desire of Israel0
Moral and ethical values in structural patterns of coercive acts in Hebrew Bible narrative0
Psalm 74 and social identity0
An Uprooted, Withered Cedar: A New Reading of Ezekiel’s Depiction of Jehoiachin’s Exile0
The question of future hope in 2 Kgs 25.27–30 and the book’s dynastic framework in 1 Kgs 1.1–53 and 2 Kgs 11.1–200
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
4. Texts and Versions0
David as primary model of repentance in Chronicles: How the Chronicler’s inclusion of David’s illicit census sin impacts David’s legacy0
Priestly Disability and Centralization of the Cult in the Holiness Code0
The Prevalence and Purpose of the ‘Assyria-Egypt’ Motif in the Book of Hosea0
An Object-Relations Analysis of Psalm 1310
Books Also Received0
The Battle with Amalek (Exod. 17.8–16): When God Trusts in Man0
YHWH in a Suit: bôd YHWH as the Regalia of the Priestly God0
Royally Enticing, Royally Forgetting: The Contribution of Psalm 45 within Its Canonical Context0
4. Texts and Versions0
Justice for whom? A dynamic interpretation of Isaiah 51.1–80
‘Other laws’: Haman’s accusation against the Jews in the book of Esther0
Hearing the ‘Voice’ of the Niphal: A Response to Ellen van Wolde0
“Drink, be drunk and vomit, fall and rise no more”: Understanding the image of the cup of God’s wrath in Jeremiah 25 in light of the Mesopotamian anti-witchcraft tradition0
Deuteronomy 14.3–21: An Early Exemplar of Rewritten Scripture?0
True and False Worship in the Prophecy of Zephaniah0
Stillness and salvation: Reading Psalm 46 in its context0
A pre-biblical version of the Cain and Abel story: A subtle condemnation of a dysfunctional social structure0
(More) On the Precative Qatal in Lamentations 3.56-61: Updating the Argument0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Naming Jerusalem: Poetry and the Identity of the Personified City in Lamentations 1-20
The diachrony of the Hebrew verb בָּעַל‎0
Sequentialized Samson: Five postwar (1949–1956) comic retellings of the Judges’’ tale0
Index of Series0
‘Like the snail that dissolves’: Construction of Identity of Psalmist and Enemy in the Lament Psalms of the Individual0
Ceremonial Celebrations Outside the Temple Compound in Ezra-Nehemiah in Babylonian Ritual Context0
Goliath among the Giants: Monster Decapitation and Capital Display in 1 Samuel 17 and Beyond0
A new Perspective on Jonathan – his covenant with David and his ultimate choice0
The Passover as inauguration of Israel’s departure from Sinai: interpretive potential of analysing narrative technique for discerning literary structure in Numbers 1–100
Israelite or Moabite? Ethnicity in the book of Ruth0
11. Philology and Grammar0
Index of Publishers0
A new approach to Jephthah’s vow: Antanaclasis (Judges 10–11)0
1. General (including Introductions and Collections of Essays)0
Index of Reviewers0
An Analysis of Concluding Verbs in the Priestly Code: A Contextual Grammatical Approach0
Ezekiel’s God in pursuit of recognition: A catalyst for self-transformation0
Honor in the Cult: Leviticus 10 in Socio-Rhetorical Perspective0
10. The Dead Sea Scrolls0
Together in Guilt: David, Jonadab, and the Rape of Tamar0
‘For a Man Is Born to Suffer’: Intertextuality between Job 4–5 and Gen. 2.4b–3.240
Remembering the lost ark: The ark narrative in its contexts0
Does the Hebrew Bible construct a social trauma? Three case studies0
Who is the holy seed?: Purity and identity in the Restoration Community0
“Restructuring the Symbolic Universe”: Resilience through Literary and Ideological Reframing in Isaiah 2.2–4(5)0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
King Solomon and the ‘Anatomy’ of Wisdom0
9. Apocrypha and Postbiblical Studies0
Index of Reviewers0
Parallel Structures in Judges and the Formation of the Book0
The Anti-Levite of Judges 17-180
8. The Life and Thought of the Surrounding Peoples0
Behemoth’s Penis, Yahweh’s Might: Competing Bodies in the Book of Job0
Engaging Westermann and the Assumptive World0
3. History, Geography and Sociology0
11. Philology and Grammar0
David, Once and Future King? A Closer Look at the Postscript of Psalm 72.200
11. Philology and Grammar0
Mountains Shall Drip Sweet Wine from the Temple: Joel’s Interpretation of the Epilogue of Amos0
‘Seeing You Have Not Withheld Your Son’: An Overlooked Motif in Genesis 22?0
Blood Manipulation in Hezekiah’s Re-inauguration of the Temple in Chronicles0
The Aqedah as ‘template’? Genesis 22 and 1 Kings 17–180
An attempt to identify the birds of Leviticus 11.13–19 using onomatopoeia0
6. Literary Studies and History of Interpretation0
Endangered or Dangerous? YHWH’s Presence and Impurity in Levitical Perspective0
Why Did YHWH Seek to Bring Disaster to Absalom? (2 Sam. 17.14b)0
Index of Publishers0
Resilience through Disclosure and Meaning Making in Qoheleth and the Babylonian Theodicy0
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